Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That feeling lasted a while but after we 'd had the children something changed and I slowly realized that I did n't love her anymore . |
| 2 | He ducked under the thief 's sword arm and brought his own blade around in an arc so incompetently misjudged that it hit the man flat-first and jolted out of the wizard 's hand . |
| 3 | If she walked out , then he would be unable to follow her unless he 'd brought back-up with him , and somehow she rather doubted that he had . |
| 4 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 5 | At this moment , as he was still wondering what to say to them , he suddenly realized that something had lightened his spirits . |
| 6 | Arriving , I suddenly realized that I did n't have a job to do . |
| 7 | She entered her room , but , as reality started to creep in , she suddenly realised that she had n't said anything more to him about that interview . |
| 8 | That day , she only realised that nobody wants their special enemy , chosen with care and attacked with force , to renounce the role and throw down arms and instead bare their breasts for an embrace . |
| 9 | She only pretended that she did . |
| 10 | So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch . |
| 11 | He only stopped when he felt like it . |
| 12 | ‘ She only came because she wanted to see the film . ’ |
| 13 | But the actual impetus to ‘ act ’ only came when I met the right people in the right context … that is , Gerry and Amitha and the rest of the Working Party . |
| 14 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 15 | She saw the puzzlement in the other 's face , and suddenly recollected that she had no notion to whom she was speaking . |
| 16 | He only noticed when he arrived home near Milan from their hols . |
| 17 | She supposed it was magic , probably it only happened when you swung your head up in a certain way , she would test that tomorrow , and as she dropped asleep it lay alongside the tickets of paper with the numbers she had written , and the tar bubbles and the sun that made red horses and brown splotches when she closed her eyes . |
| 18 | It is exactly the sort of corkscrew I always use but the room was so dark and I so flurried that I drove it in sideways and broke the cork . |
| 19 | Which in itself was no lie , but it just so happened that she 'd never been allowed to join the other children in such frivolous pastimes , she reflected with a touch of resentment . |
| 20 | It so happened that it fell to the lot of Geoffrey Holton and Chris Protheroe to do the donkey work in the Lusaka accident , but it could have been any of the twenty or so investigators in AIB . |
| 21 | It so happened that it turned out a good thing that it did n't get posted , but that was just a lucky chance . |
| 22 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 23 | and I , I told him I was n't stupid enough to keep money in the house as an ex er as an ex lawyer and erm , where , er it so happened as I say that I talked to he , he did n't take any thing in fact at the end he apologise for having chosen the wrong house and he |
| 24 | It so happened if he got paid anyway ! |
| 25 | Bessie Parkes more prudently replied that she thought it was " undeniable " that it would bring lower wages but " it was only fair to let women have a fair share in the competition " . |
| 26 | On May 12 the director of the Lima morgue showed reporters the bodies of 36 people whose autopsies apparently showed that they had been shot dead after the siege had finished . |
| 27 | So angry was Ian Paisley at the affront to Carson 's memory that he increased his tirade of abuse against O'Neill , produced Carson 's son to contest the Westminster elections in March ( promising four Protestant Unionists in all ) and only withdrew when he realised how devoid of constituency organisation he then was . |
| 28 | A glance inside showed that someone had taken trouble , and there was a really friendly feeling about the place . |
| 29 | But here is a theme already so ravelled that it craves disentanglement . |
| 30 | In er , , you know , we only reversed when we got to the bottom of that last machine , and why had the guy back , erm , went over it , and go through it again , luckily it was only three high . |